With the new year around the corner, it's time to start thinking through your 2020 plan. What are your top hiring priorities? What skills and technology gaps stand in the way of those priorities? How can you equip your team with the necessary skillset and resources?
As the weather gets colder and the days get shorter, there’s no better way to spend a winter evening than curled up by the fireplace with a good book. Why not take the opportunity to sharpen up your recruiting chops while you’re at it? Get your hot cocoa (or egg nog) ready, because we’ve put together the essential winter reading list for recruiters in 2019.
ConveyIQ by Entelo is excited to sponsor TalentNet Live 2019 in Dallas on December 6. Join us at Toyota’s state of the art North American Headquarters with over 200 talent professionals from great companies like Pepsico, Toyota, Zoes Kitchen, Baylor Healthcare, AmericanAirlines, McAfee, Intuit, and many more.
It’s a job seeker’s world out there. Companies of all kinds are in desperate need to fill their specialized roles with top talent, and there are only so many qualified candidates that they can recruit to fill those spots. Meanwhile, those same candidates are being recruited by other companies as well, and you can bet that their current employers are working to keep their VIPs on their teams.
While significant progress has been made since the days of suffragettes, there is much to be done in order to secure gender equality. In fact, with the current rate of progress, the gender pay gap will remain for another 108 years - a timeline we can all agree is just not good enough.
One of the biggest fuelers of gender inequality in the workplace is institutionalized bias. And one of the reasons bias is so pervasive and persistent is because a majority of the time it’s unconscious - so ingrained into our daily interactions, collaborations, and perspectives that we just don’t notice it.
Here’s a snapshot of the current state of gender bias and how to identify it within your workplace:
As we head into the last few months of 2019, it’s easy to get caught up in our increasingly busy schedules and much more difficult to proactively set ourselves up for success in the new year. However by dedicating an hour or two in November for a webinar or networking event, you can pick up great strategies and gain new perspectives to help you prioritize your 2020 goals.
Get started by attending one (or both) of these two great events aimed at arming you with the know-how to take your candidate experience to the next level:
